Advanced Micro Devices CEO Hector Ruiz said Wednesday during the company"s first quarter fiscal 2005 conference call that the company"s first server dual-core chips with two processing engines will be formally announced on the 21st of April, 2005.
"As some of you may know, we are ahead of schedule on our dual-core AMD Opteron processors. In fact, we"ve been shipping samples to customers since January... Therefore, in response to customer demand and because of our rapid qualification cycle we can confirm that we will indeed be launching our highly-anticipated AMD Opteron dual-core processor, the industry"s first x86 dual-core server processor, in New York next Thursday," said Hector Ruiz, CEO and Chairman of AMD.